AN EYESORE
TO BE TIDIED UP.
The Mavor states that the City Engineer (Mr. W. H. Morton) has been given instructions to clean up that triangular area of waste land, formerly occupied by tlie Manners Street.' Police Station and Floclton's Store..; For nearly a year this place has lain vacant, and in windy weather has been a great .dust generator for Courtonay Place and its vicinity. The Mayor informed a Dominion reporter that this work would have been done before but. for the shortage of labour that is being; experienced. Such .works can only be. undertaken by transferring men from other works, and there have been important road works at Wadestown, and. the repair of the big slip (which has entailed the erection of a concrete wall) on the Karori tramway line, to attend to. An effort, however, is now to be made to re-model the surface of the area mentioned, either by turfing or by laying it down in asphalt. The former proposal is the most attractive, .if the public would keep off tho grass. It is not generally known that it is illegal for a person to cross the grass sections in such reserves, and notices, warning the public of their duty have been placed in the re-formed Courtonay Place reserve, but still there are those who deliberately walk on the grass, instead of the ample and convenient paths provided. '
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 61, 5 December 1917, Page 6
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232AN EYESORE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 61, 5 December 1917, Page 6
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